Category: Contemporary Craft
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Maps of Transition
Are our personalities just a collection of our routines? Are our personalities ingrained? Do we perform them? We could find little bits and pieces in other people and sew them into ourselves. Maps of transition are reflections on personality, growth, life, lives and changes. Many of the narratives we tell about ourselves are the aspects…
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Growing Forms, Free Standing
Growing FormsWool, soil, living plants2018 Fuzzy and Prickly, Smooth and rough, soft and hard, air and earth. Cacti and plants living in pots with decorative yarn outsides, soft and prickly, smooth and fuzzy. Containing nature through structure and forms.
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Growing Forms: Hanging
Growing FormsWool, Soil, Living Plants2018 Fuzzy and Prickly, Smooth and rough, soft and hard, air and earth. Cacti living in textile and soil pods, watered through the permeable layer of crochet wool containing roots and soil. Containing nature through structure and forms.
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It Washes Through
It Washes ThroughHandspun wool, linen, nylon2018 We have routines and rhythms to our lives that are affected by our upbringing, our jobs, our partners and friends, our health. These rhythms can help us to grow and flourish when they’re nourishing. They can also create toxic patterns that we repeat because they’re familiar and comfortable. A…
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Calm
CalmCotton, wire2018 How do you record the weight a person has on a life, and the weight they have after they’re gone? How do you learn who someone is by what they left behind? A t-shirt worn to threads, with the shape of the person who wore it evident.
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It Washes Over
It Washes Over explores experiences through the objects we hold onto, and how the experiences they represent change us. Using donated items of significance that carry memories, grief, and trauma, I ventured into the inner workings of heartbreak and back again. This exploration of physical and emotional experiences as an unraveling and reworking of self weaves…
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Loving You Hurt More
Loving You Hurt MorePaper, cotton, tape, wire2018 Journals with the story sliced and dissected, never to be read, but maybe to be understood some day.
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Dedicated to
Dedicated ToPaper, tape, cotton, wire2018 I was donated the book Anal Pleasure and Health by Jack Morin as part of my project. In his early 30s, my contributor had the realization that he was bisexual, and his family was not accepting of his sexual identity. His niece (who was in her 20s) gave him her book as…
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The Process of Closure
I work with objects that break people’s hearts but that they’ve held onto because of sentimental value. I take them apart and transform the materials into a new form. The long processes and labour are like the process of grief or moving on; it takes time and sometimes we want to rush past it. By…
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Growing Together/Growing Apart
Growing Together/Growing ApartCotton and rings2017. I was given these wedding bands as a generous contribution to my project. Wedding bands are culturally one of the biggest signifiers of commitment and often that’s what we think of when “heartbreak” comes up: a relationship. Often the heartbreak objects I receive are from people who were in turbulent…
Katrina Craig 